Notation and Record

noun

• A technical system of symbols used to represent special things.
  • synonyms: notational system
• A comment or instruction (usually added. )
  • usage: "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope"
  • synonyms: note, annotation
• The activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters. .

• (n.) Literal or etymological signification.
• (n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. especially, the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity or operations.
• (n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures or characters.
• (n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures or characters.
• (n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. especially, the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity or operations.
• (n.) Literal or etymological signification.

noun

• Anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events.
  • usage: "the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques"
• Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove.
  • synonyms: phonograph record, phonograph recording, disk, disc, platter
• The number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had.
  • usage: "at 9-0 they have the best record in their league"
• The sum of recognized accomplishments.
  • usage: "the lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good president"
  • synonyms: track record
• A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone.
  • usage: "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the record books"
  • synonyms: record book, book
• An extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport. )
  • usage: "he tied the Olympic record"; "coffee production last year broke all previous records"; "Chicago set the homicide record"
• A document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction.
  • usage: "they could find no record of the purchase"
• A list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted.
  • usage: "he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"; "the prostitute had a record a mile long"
  • synonyms: criminal record

verb

• Make a record of; set down in permanent form.
  • synonyms: enter, put down
• Register electronically.
  • usage: "They recorded her singing"
  • synonyms: tape
• Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments.
  • usage: "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
  • synonyms: read, register, show
• Be aware of.
  • usage: "Did you register any change when I pressed the button"
  • synonyms: register
• Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event.
  • usage: "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"
  • synonyms: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise

• (v.t.) That which has been or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.
• (v.t.) Testimony; witness; attestation.
• (v.t.) A writing by which some act or event or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.
• (v.t.) An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law.
• (v.t.) To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.
• (v.i.) To sing or repeat a tune.
• (v.t.) To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.
• (v.t.) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.
• (v.i.) To reflect; to ponder.
• (v.t.) To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
• (v.t.) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
• (v.t.) That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.
• (v.t.) That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.
• (v.t.) The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record.